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The water babies : a fairy tale for a land baby

Author: Charles KingsleyNoel Paton, Sir.Percival SkeltonJames Davis CooperMacmillan & Co.All authors
Publisher: London : MacMillan and Co., 1872
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : Juvenile audience : English : New edView all editions and formats
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The adventures of Tom, a sooty little chimney sweep with a great longing to be clean, who is stolen by fairies and turned into a water baby.
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Genre/Form: Fairy tales
Juvenile fiction
Material Type: Fiction, Juvenile audience
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Charles Kingsley; Noel Paton, Sir.; Percival Skelton; James Davis Cooper; Macmillan & Co.; R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor.
OCLC Number: 5904407
Notes: The Water-Babies was inspired by Kingsley's thoughts on evolution. He was one of the few clergymen to accept Darwin's theories of evolution and natural selection.
Description: [5], 388 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Responsibility: by Charles Kingsley ; with illustrations by Sir Noel Paton and Percival Skelton.

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The adventures of Tom, a sooty little chimney sweep with a great longing to be clean, who is stolen by fairies and turned into a water baby.

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